The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-07-05
PROF. GoUGE'S COLLEGE.
4 Wonderful Institution Of Learning With
High-Toned Curriculum.


Heightened Curriculum.
The academy is pleasantly situated
at the head of navigation on the pike
running from Springfield Corners to
Sangerfeld. 1t is rising institution
and stands on rising ground. The air
about it is salubrious and plenty of it.
The school is within ten minutes walk
of a road which runs to the railway.
The course of study in the collegiate
department includes what we may call
the bric-a-brac of science and social
law. A gorgeous Autograph diploma
is given on graduation, costing eighty
cents. Dr.. Dio Lewis system of
musical gymnastics is taught in the
school. By daily exercise and perfect
freedom at the woodpile with bucksaw,
not to speak of blackberry picking
when in season, it will be attempted to
preserve and invigorate the health of
all members of the school. The dis
cipline of the school, while it seeks to
inspire public confidence, is also aimed
at the more fieshy part of the person.
Though firm and unyielding it will be
strictly kind in its character.
Board and tuition in English and
Latin, $3.50 per annum, half-yearly in
advance or quarterly if more conven-
lent A limited quantity of truck will
be taken at market rates, but turnips,
pumpkins and hemlock wood will be
promptly returned. Deductions for
boarding self $50 per annum. We
lose money at that Terms for in
struction in journalism, free-hand
stump-speaking and drumming for dry
goods regulated by cost of teachers
employed. Each student will supply
himself with bedquilt and napkin
ring, and he will mark every article
with his name as an evidence of good.
faith. Like all firzt-class schools we
have a curriculum, but no one will be
allowed to ride in it except the profess
sors and their families, with the excep-
ton of to and from the depot. Smoked
glass will be furnished to the students
through which to observe eclipses. An
open top observatory is on the roof
through which the heavens at night
may be viewed without extra charge.
The milky way is Immediately over this
room. Several nicely-fixed stars and
a few asteroids are discovered every
year and turned over to the nearest
signal service station. For scientific
purposes no school could be better sit
uated. 1t is exactly in the center of
the earth, and the four points of the
compass radiate exactly from this great
center. The museum occupies almost
four side0 of large room. Wild animals
securely stuffed and cased in glass
startle and entrance the beholder.
Birds from every sky and monkeys
from every climb glare upon the
startled students. Rocks, petrifac-
tons and plaster casts cast studious
glow over the youthful mind, while
snakes and reptiles in cleaning var
nish and colors lure the juvenile
scholar along the paths of learning.
The museum is free to the students,
but we deprecate the vandal deed of a
hungry youth from Herkimer, who
picked the bald-headed eagle and took
it down to the cook to have it baked
for Thanksgiving. Such actions SAVIOR
more of rebellion than wit. We here
give fair warning that dressing the
skeleton up in a summer suit and
hanging it out of the museum window
viii subject the perpetrator to expul-
sion. Let the dead past bury its dead.
Oral instruction is a feature here.
During the year young lady elocutionists
will be allowed, on paying bonus of
SO into the library fund, to
read s'Curfew shall not bang tonight"
and "Horatio at the Poughkeepsie
bridge" and other poems of that class
to the students while secured in the
lecture room. Profs. Gouge and Kor-
puscle have new lectures on 1.-The Evo-
luton of the Crank" and the list of
kindred subjects treated on, for they
have often been treated on those lee
lures, and the interest will be kept
alive If stimulants will do it. We re-
fer by permission to any of the alumni
of the institution. many of whom re-
tain their responsibility and but few of
whom are in politics. Rooms should
be selected early as the lowest rooms
come highest and the highest rooms
come lowest. The rooms are very
good, in fact better than their company.
This is sportive. Letters inclosing two
cent stamps will receive prompt atten-
ton and the stamps will be taken care
of. Catalogues and diagrams of the
dormitories will be sent on application.
As Boulanger remarked in his fourth
satire:
Tis education makes the boy resigned,
When twigs around him bend the youth viii
mind.
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